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Hi all...
ok, i was trying to install guiftp so i ran the "tar -xvzf guiftp-etc-etc.tar.gz" that i downloaded to the "/root" directory. then i cd into the new directory and ran the "./configure" and now it tells me i dont have the GLIB...so i go and download it, to the /root directory. i extract it the same way i did the guiftp and then cd into the directory and run the ./config and it tells me i'm missing some other file...

now, my question is... do i have to run the tar.gz from a specific directory? i was thinking maybe that's why it doesn't find the files it needs...

checking for gmsgfmt... no
checking for xgettext... :
checking for catalogs to be installed... fr
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.

We all have to wait for some apps to update the Gnome version they're coding against. In the mean time, there might be pre-compiled binaries available for your distro. What is your distro - it's not in your sig.?